DON”T BE “TRUMPED”
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DON”T BE “TRUMPED” by DOPELGAINGERS
By Paul Morantz
Author: Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults (with Hal Lancaster) and From Miracle to Madness
(c) Paul Morantz 5-26-2017
“A group is extraordinarily credulous and open to influence…anyone who wishes to produce an effect upon it needs no logical arguments; he must paint [...]

Santa Monica Daily Press
Author:
Jack Neworth
I’ve been fortunate in life to have a number of long-term friendships. Paul Morantz, a semi-retired lawyer in Pacific Palisades, is one of them. Paul and I were teammates on Hamilton High School’s “B” basketball team more years ago than I care to admit.
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Given his humor I could have imagined Paul [...]

USC Alumni Association
New Titles
Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults
by Morantz, Paul
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 1968, Gould School of Law, JD, 1971
Figueroa Press (2012)
Lancaster, Hal
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 1969
Unique in its scope and perspective, the book scrupulously details the origins and activities of nearly every major destructive cult [...]

Clarion Review
HISTORY
Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults
Paul Morantz
Hal Lancaster
Cresta Publications
978-0-615-84869-3
Four Stars (out of Five)
An outline of techniques used by cult leaders vibrantly and cleverly offers insight into
human nature.
Attorney Paul Morantz’s second edition of Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults is a
fascinating distillation of forty years of tangling with off-kilter charismatic leaders, viperwielding [...]

Snake Tales
The woman asked if I could help her daughter back from Synanon. She said she found her 18-year-old smoking marijuana and took her to Synanon. But now they would not let her see her daughter or speak to her. I asked the dates she took her to Synanon
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Squares were still entertained at the Saturday Night Party. This weekly event had become so popular with the public, as many as 200 attending, that reservations were required do to the limited space. A charge of $10 a month was made to regulars. Well dressed [...]

He was born March 22, l913 in a small middle American town of Toledo, Ohio, marked and parted by the flowing Maumee River, the largest river feeding into the Great Lakes, and parked at the southwest extremity of Lake Erie...

It was the eve of the Beatles invasion. When Happy Days was life, not a TV show. My high school senior class gathered on a Santa Monica beach--celebrating graduation and friendships we had no doubt would extend long beyond our current 17 years of existence.

Jul 9, 1972 – In April, David Vinje, a respected member of the county public defender’s office, was murdered during a holdup in a Sherman Oaks bar called Lola’s Place. When another public defender, Paul Morantz, showed up at work the next morn he decided to write the story.
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This 1978 article explores Synanon, an organization that tried to murder Paul Morantz to keep him from pursuing legal judgment against them. At the time Synanon had become a major non profit corporation based on the ideals of creating a new society with its own private army, the Imperial Marines.

The origins of Synanon, an organization that began with the best interest of recovering addicts in mind that later twisted into a powerful cult of personality led by Charles Dederich whose own interests were served.

Having taken on Synanon almost single handedly in court cases from the late 1970's thru the 80's, Paul Morantz is the pre-eminent scholar on the rise and fall of Synanon and it's founder, Charles Dederich.